Nendo exhibitions during Maison & Objet

NENDO starts two solo exhibitions in Paris during the MAISON&OBJET exhibition. One is “Static Bubbles” at Carpenters Workshop Gallery ant the other is “Object dependencies” at Specimen Editions w/ Pierre Alain Chalier gallery.
The “Innerblow collection” for Carpenters Workshop Gallery is a collection inspired by the way professional glassblowers draw a lump of molten glass onto the tip of a metal pipe and create form by expanding the glass with their breath, blown down the metal. After expanding the glass in a square metal form, we left the glass in place rather than removing it and flipped over the form to create a table. The metal form becomes the table's legs and the glass, flattened through pressure against the floor, its flat top. Each of the five tables is different.
In the "Overflow collection” for Carpenters, glass is formed when a free-flowing liquid hardens in place, creating a unique form. The creators placed plate glass into a frame with one section missing, and turned the sheet into molten glass by progressively heating it so that the molten glass would run from the missing section. By hardening the glass again at just that moment, the edge responds to surface tension, creating a table like a pool of water. The collection's twelve tables vary in the amount of glass that overflows the frame and the position of the overflow.
The "Farming-net" collection for Carpenters is a collection of sculptural objects made by heat-forming agricultural nets ordinarily placed around fruit and vegetables to prevent them from harm by wind and animals.The nets are stronger than organdy but more flexible than wire mesh. Using them as a sculptural material allowed us to evade the traditional necessity of combining structure with a separate surface material, to create a thin membrane that stands independently, but also floats gently on a breeze. The flower vase and bowl wrap the air like a furoshiki Japanese wrapping cloth.
"Object dependencies" collection for Specimen Editions furniture was structurally complete, and served to hold books, cups and other objects placed upon it. We can say that this function was one of the most important factors in determining the form of a piece of furniture, says Nendo. This collection presents pieces of 'weak furniture' that cannot stand independently until they are made structurally sound through the addition of an object. In addition to increasing stability, the accumulation of objects has other effects as well.